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SPECIALITY LOW SATURATES CANOLA OIL
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[00011 This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent
Application
Serial No. 62/374,244, filed August 12, 2016, entitled "SPECIALITY LOW
SATURATES CANOLA OIL".
BACKGROUND
100021 The invention generally relates to canola oils containing low
levels of
saturated fatty acids. Diets high in saturated fatty acids, or saturates, have
been linked to
higher levels of cholesterol and an increased risk of cardiovascular disease.
Current
dietary guidelines recommend that saturated fat intake should not be more than
10% of
total calories. Therefore based on a 2,000 calorie a day diet, no more than
about 20 grams
of saturated fat should be consumed per day. To increase consumer awareness of
this
recommendation the FDA's labeling guidelines require that any food carrying
the "low
sat" label contain less than 1 gram of saturated fat per 14 gram serving. Any
food labeled
as "no sat" must contain less than 0.5 grams of saturated fat per 14 gram
serving. In
addition to the desire for reduced levels of saturated fats, oils used in food
applications
including frying must exhibit other important characteristics such as
stability, cost
acceptability, and a desirable flavor profile. The present invention provides
novel canola
oils with a combination of stability, flavor, and low total saturates.
SUMMARY
[00031 Canola oils of the present invention are particularly useful for
frying
applications. The major challenges faced by fast food restaurants in frying
involves the
desire to have a good tasting oil that is also stable to the intense high heat
and moisture
inherent in frying conditions. Coupled with those challenges is the desire to
have oils that
are also reduced in saturated fatty acids. Fully saturated fats, either
naturally occurring or
produced through hydrogenation of other oils have excellent stability,
however, these oils
are viewed negatively by the public. The oils of the present invention were
developed to
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address the three pronged need for a frying oil to be stable, great tasting,
and low in total
saturates. Stability is achieved by maintaining a low content of linolenie
acid (C18:3).
This fatty acid is particularly susceptible to oxidation in the frying
environment. Flavor is
maintained by keeping a high content of linoleic acid (C18:2). Finally, the
customer
awareness around saturated fat is managed by having an oil with less than 5%
total
saturates. All three of these important parameters had never been achieved in
canola
crop. Accordingly, oils of the present invention can be used produce fried
foods such as
snack chips (e.g., corn or potato chips), french fries, or other quick serve
foods.
100041 The present invention relates to canola plants, seeds, and oils that
contain low
levels of saturated fatty acids but also have an enhanced flavor profile and
good frying
stability. The canola plants, seeds, oil, and methods of production are
described below.
[0005] A canola plant comprising seed wherein the seed comprises an oil and
wherein
the oil has:
a) a total saturates content of 3.5% to 5%;
b) a linoleic acid content of greater than 18%; and
c) a linolenic acid content of less than 3.0%.
[00061 A food composition comprising an edible canola oil wherein the oil
comprises:
a) a total saturates content of from 3.5% to 5%;
b) a linoleic acid content of greater than 18%; and
c) a linolenic acid content of less than 3.0%.
100071 A canola oil comprising:
a) a total saturates content of from 3.5% to 5%;
b) a linoleic acid content of greater than 18%; and
C) a linolenie acid content of less than 3.0%.
100081 A method of producing a canola oil comprising the steps of:
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a) crushing a canola seed to yield a crude oil wherein the crude oil
comprises:
i) a total saturates content of 3.5% to 5%;
ii) an linoleic acid content of greater than 180/o; and
iii) an linolenic acid content of less than 3.0%; and
b) refining the crude oil to yield a refined canola oil.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[00091 The canola oil of the present invention is defined by a novel
combination of
features that leads to improved performance as a frying oil.
[NM "Total Saturates", as used herein, means the combination of the
percentages of
the following fatty acids which may be present in canola oils. Total Saturates
refers to the
total of myristic acid (C14:0), palmitic acid (C16:0), stearic acid (C18:0),
arachidic acid
(C20:0), behenic acid (C22:0), and lignoceric acid (C24:0).
100111 "Oleic acid", as used herein, means a C18:1 fatty acid.
100121 "Linoleic acid", as used herein, means a C18:2 fatty acid.
100131 "Linolenic acid", as used herein, means a C18:3 fatty acid.
100141 "Non-transgenic", as used herein, means that the canola plants, or
canola
seeds, do not contain any non-native Brassica DNA other than herbicide
tolerant traits.
The seeds or plants of the present invention may contain transgenic events
related to
conveyance of herbicide tolerance such as resistance to glyphosate or other
herbicides.
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[0015] "Blended", as used herein, means oils with materially different
fatty acid
compositions blended together to create a mixture. Including individual canola
oils or
mixtures of one or more of the following blended together: canola, soy, corn,
palm,
peanut, coconut, cocoa, flaxseed, sunflower, olive, and the like.
100161 "Refining or refined", as used herein, means crude pressed or
extracted canola
oils that are treated by chemical or physical means to remove impurities or
improve
quality. Refining is well known the art and may include one or more steps to
remove
impurities. Any known processes to remove impurities or improve quality of
vegetable
oils is included within the definition of refining. See, e.g., Bailey's
Industrial Oil and Fat
Products, (6th Edition, 2005).
[0017] "Canola", as used herein means plants from the Brassica sp.
including:
Brassica juncea, Brassica rapa, and Brassica napus. Reference to a canola
"plant" or
"plants" includes the plant and its progeny, such as its Fi, F2, F3, Fa, and
subsequent
generation plants. In a specific embodiment canola is Brassica napus.
[0018] "Canola seed" or "seed", as used herein, means the combined seeds
harvested
from one or more Brassica sp. plants.
[0019] The fatty acid composition of oil obtained from seed of Brassica
plants can be
determined by methods well known in the art. Typically it can be determined by
first
crushing and extracting oil from seed samples (e.g., bulk seed samples of 10
or more
seeds). TAGs in the seed are hydrolyzed to produce free fatty acids, which
then can be
converted to fatty acid methyl esters and analyzed using techniques known to
the skilled
artisan, e.g, gas-liquid chromatography (GLC) according to AOCS Procedure Ce 1-
62.
Near infrared (NIR) analysis can be performed on whole seed according to AOCS
Procedure Am-192 (revised 1999). Numerical values presented herein and in the
examples below are a weight percentage. The percentage of a particular fatty
acid is
described as a percentage of the total fatty acids in the sample as identified
empirically.
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The following fatty acids were measured as part of the evaluation. (C16:0,
C16:1, C18:0,
C18:1, C18:2, C18:3, C20:0, C20:1, C20:2, C22:0, C22:1, C24:0, and C24:1.)
100201 Seeds harvested from plants described herein can be used to make a
crude
canola oil or a refined, bleached, and deodorized (RBD) canola oil with a low
total
saturates content. Harvested canola seed can be crushed by techniques known in
the art.
The seed can be tempered by spraying the seed with water to raise the moisture
to, for
example, about 8.5%. The tempered seed can be flaked using a smooth roller
with, for
example, a gap setting of 0.23 to 0.27 mm. Heat may be applied to the flakes
to
deactivate enzymes, facilitate further cell rupturing, coalesce the oil
droplets, or
agglomerate protein particles in order to ease the extraction process.
Typically, oil is
removed from the heated canola flakes by a screw press to press out a major
fraction of
the oil from the flakes. The resulting press cake contains some residual oil.
Alternatively, the tempered flakes can be extracted with hexane to yield an
oil rich
miscella. The miscella is subsequently desolventized to yield a crude oil.
Both pressed
and/or extraction processes are included in the definition of crushing.
[00211 Crude oil produced from the pressing operation typically is passed
through a
settling tank with a slotted wire drainage top to remove the solids expressed
out with the
oil in the screw pressing operation. The clarified oil can be passed through a
plate and
frame filter to remove the remaining fine solid particles. Canola press cake
produced
from the screw pressing operation can also be extracted with commercial
hexane. The
canola oil recovered after solvent evaporation from the extraction process is
combined
with the clarified oil from the screw pressing operation, resulting in a
combined crude oil.
100221 Free fatty acids and gums typically are removed from the crude oil
by adding
food grade phosphoric acid and heating the acidified oil in a batch refining
tank. The acid
serves to convert the non-hydratable phosphatides to a hydratable form, and to
chelate
minor metals that are present in the crude oil. The oil-acid mixture is
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treated with sodium hydroxide solution to neutralize the free fatty acids and
the remaining
phosphoric acid in the acid-oil mixture. The neutralized free fatty acids,
metal salts,
phosphatides, etc. (soapstock) are drained off from the neutralized oil. A
water wash may
be done to further reduce the soap content of the oil. The oil may be bleached
and
deodorized before use, if desired, by standard techniques known in the art.
See, e.g.,
Bailey's Industrial Oil and Fat Products, (6th Edition, 2005).
[0023] Oils obtained from the Brassica plant described herein can have
increased
oxidative stability, which can be measured using, for example, an Oxidative
Stability
Index Instrument (e.g., from Omnion, Inc., Rockland, MA) according to AOCS
Official
Method Cd 12b-92 (revised 1993). Oxidative stability is often expressed in
terms of
"AOM" hours.
Food Compositions
100241 The present disclosure also includes and provides for other food
compositions
containing the oils described above. For example, oils having a low (less than
5%) total
saturated fatty acid content in combination with low linolenic content and
high linoleic
content can be used to replace or reduce the amount of saturated fatty acids
and
hydrogenated oils in various food products such that the levels of saturated
fatty acids and
trans fatty acids are reduced in the food products. In particular, canola oils
of the present
invention can be used to replace or reduce the amount of saturated fats and
hydrogenated
oils in processed or packaged food products, including bakery products such as
cookies,
muffins, doughnuts, pastries (e.g, toaster pastries), pie fillings, pie
crusts, pizza crusts,
frostings, breads, biscuits, cakes, breakfast cereals, breakfast bars,
puddings, and crackers.
[0025] For example, an oil described herein can be used to produce sandwich
cookies
that contain reduced saturated fatty acids and no or reduced levels of
hydrogenated oils in
the cookie and/or creme filling. In addition to canola oil, such a cookie
composition can
include, for example, flour, sweetener (e.g., sugar, molasses, honey, high
fructose corn
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syrup, naturally sweet compounds such as those from Stevia rebaudiana plants
(stevioside, rebaudioside A, B, C, D, and/or E), artificial sweetener such as
sucralose,
saccharine, aspartame, or acesulfame potassium, and combinations thereof),
eggs, salt,
flavorants (e.g., chocolate, vanilla, or lemon), a leavening agent (e.g.,
sodium bicarbonate
or other baking acid such as monocalcium phosphate monohydrate, sodium
aluminum
sulfate, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate, dicalcium
phosphate,
glucano-deltalactone, or potassium hydrogen tartrate, or combinations
thereof), and
optionally, an emulsifier (e.g., mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids,
propylene glycol
mono- and di-esters of fatty acids, glycerol-lactose esters of fatty acids,
ethoxylated or
succinylated mono- and diglycerides, lecithin, diacetyl tartaric acid esters
or mono- and
diglycerides, sucrose esters of glycerol, and combinations thereof). In
addition to canola
oil, a creme filling composition can include sweetener (e.g., powdered sugar,
granulated
sugar, honey, high fructose corn syrup, artificial sweetener, or combinations
thereof),
flavorant (e.g., vanilla, chocolate, or lemon), salt, and, optionally,
emulsifier.
100261 Oils described herein also can be used to formulate spray coatings
for food
products (e.g., cereals or snacks such as crackers). In some embodiments, the
spray
coating can include other vegetable oils such as sunflower, cottonseed, corn,
or soybean
oils. A spray coating also can include an antioxidant and/or a seasoning.
[0027j Oils described herein also can be used in the manufacturing of
dressings,
mayonnaises, and sauces to provide a reduction in the total saturated fat
content of the
product. The low saturate oil can be used as a base oil for creating
structured fat solutions
such as microwave popcorn solid fats or canola butter formulations.
100281 Linolenic Acid ¨ As mentioned above, to maintain stability C18:3
levels
should be kept as low as possible appreciating that it is increasingly
difficult to produce
plants with ultra low levels of linolenic acid. Embodiments of the present
invention have
linolenic acid level in canola seed of between 1.5% and 3%. Additional
embodiments
have levels from 1)1.5% to 2.5%; ii) 1.65% to 2.5%; or iii) 1.1% to 3.1%.
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100291 Linoleic -- A specific level of C18:2 linoleic acid is desired in
the eanola seed
an oil of the present invention. Embodiments of the present invention have
linolenic acid
level in the canola seed or oil of greater than 18% or 20%. Additional
embodiments have
levels from i) 21% to 28%; ii) 24% to 26%; iii) 21.1% to 28.8%; or iv) 18% to
30.6%.
100301 Oleic -- Embodiments of the present invention have oleic acid level
in the
canola seed or oil of greater than 60% or 65%. Additional embodiments have
levels from
i) 60% to 70%; ii) 63% to 68%; or iii) 59.9% to 73.6%.
100311 Total Saturates -- Embodiments of the present invention have a total
saturates level of less than 5%. Commodity canola oils commonly used in
industry and
by consumers have a saturate levels of between 6-8%. See, e.g., Bailey's
Industrial Oil
and Fat Products, Section 2.2, "Canola Oil" on pages 61-121 of Volume 2 (6th
Edition,
2005). Embodiments of the present invention have total saturates level in the
canola seed
or oil of between 3.5% and 5%. Additional embodiments have levels from 1) 4%
to 5%;
ii) 4 to 4.5%; iii) 4.2% to 4.7%; and iv) 3.8% to 5.9%.
100321 All possible combinations of the values for linoleic, linolenic, and
total
saturates mentioned above are within the scope of the present invention and
are
specifically contemplated by the inventor. For example, combinations include
but are not
envisioned to be limited to the following.
100331 Table I
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1 Embodiment % LinOleiC % Linotenie r% Total SaturateS
A >18 1.5-3 355
1 >20 1.5-3 3.5-5
>20 1.5-2:75 4-5
E 20-25
1.5-2.75 3:5-5
21.L28 1.5-2.75 4-5
1 ......
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21-28 1.5-2.75 4.2-4.7
18-30.6 1.1-2.9 4.1-5.3
4.
[0034j Embodiments in Table I can further comprise specific oleic acid
content.
Examples of embodiments with specific oleic content include but are not
limited to the
following: (>60%, >65%, 65% to 70%, 64% to 68%; and 59.9% to 73.6%.)
100351 Further embodiments of the present invention are canola plants,
seeds, and oils
that are non-transgenic.
100361 Further embodiments of the present invention are canola oils that
are not
blended or are extracted from a single hybrid variety.
100371 Embodiments of the present invention also include methods of frying
food
products comprising heating an oil as described herein and immersing a food
product in
the heated oil. An additional embodiment is the use of the oils described
herein for flying
foods.
100381 All ranges described in this application and corresponding claims
specifically
include the designated endpoints as values included in the range.
[00391 The invention throughout this disclosure will be further described
in the
following examples, which do not limit the scope of the invention described in
the claims.
100401 EXAMPLES
100411 Examples 1-3. Three examples of plants of the present invention were
deposited with the American Type Culture Collection.
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100421 Examples 1-3 were grown in field trials at 8 separate locations, 5
plants were
self-pollenated under bags at each location, and harvested at maturity. Seeds
from each
plant were combined and analyzed for fatty acid content. Results are presented
as means
computed from single plant analyses below in Table 11. The min and max values
for each
Example are also include in Table 11.
[00431 Table II
Example % C181 (min, max) %C182 %C183 1
%Total Sats
1 65.59 (61.3, 69.5) ,1 25.84 (20.9, 29.3) 1.65 (1.1,
2.9) 4.32 (i.9:5.4)
2 66.53 (59.9, 69.8) =I 24.09 (21.1, 30.6) 2.503.1)
4A25.6)
3 67.13 02.2, 73.6) 24.20 (18.0,
28.8) 1.90 (IA, i7pti 4.46 (3.8, 5.9)
100441 Specific examples, and particular formulations given describe
exemplary
embodiments, they serve the purpose of illustration only. It should be
understood that
various alternatives to the embodiments of the invention described may be
employed in
practicing the invention.
The systems shown and described are not limited to the precise details
and conditions disclosed. Method steps provided may not be limited to the
order in which
they are listed but may be ordered any way as to carry out the inventive
process without
departing from the scope of the invention.
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